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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Blount J. Coley

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 23rd North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 23 year old farmer in Granville County, he mustered as Private, Company E, 23rd North Carolina Infantry on 5 June 1861 in Northampton County.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap on on South Mountain.

References & notes

Service from the Roster 1 via the Historical Data Systems database.

Birth

c. 1838; Granville County, NC

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

Notes

1   Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-  [AotW citation 19310]